Kebanggaan Bangsa Quotes & Sayings

While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the sun, we sat in the observation car, where the woodwork was hot to the touch and red dust lay deep over everything. The dust and heat, the burning wind, reminded us of many things. We were talking about what it is like to spend one's childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky, when one is fairly stifled in vegetation, in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavy harvests; blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron. We agreed that no one who had not grown up in a little prairie town could know anything about it. It was a kind of freemasonry, we said. — Willa Cather

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time. — Eartha Kitt

Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine. — Al Franken

In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras. — George W. Bush

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. — Leo Tolstoy

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. — Charles Marion Russell

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow. — Ansel Adams

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By ... — Randall Jarrell

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have. — Roger Ailes

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this. — Mark Bowden

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference. — Ambrose Bierce

No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourself for you and all that that entails. — Keshia Knight Pulliam

There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing great songs. Having great songs will not be obvious to record executives if they are not professionally produced. Consistently performing those songs extremely well is essential. — Wendy Starland